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A Course in Game Theory presents the main ideas of game theory at a level suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, emphasizing the theory's foundations and interpretations of its basic concepts. The authors provide precise def[...]
A working “anthropology of development” although greatly needed, is nowhere in evidence today, Professor Cochrane asserts. Writing as an anthropologist, and as an administrator with some years of experience with the developing countries of the W[...]
Taking as its starting point the interdependence of the economy and the natural environment, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of ecological economics. The authors, who have written extensively on the economic[...]
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4th cover on publisher's website: "Econometrics is the quantitative language of economic theory, analysis, and empirical work, and it has become a cornerstone of graduate economics programs. Econometrics provides graduate and PhD students with [...]
The objectives of econometric modeling of producer behavior are to determine the nature of substitution among inputs and outputs and of differences in technology, as well as the role of economies of scale in production. Recent advances in method[...]
Gabriel Vangrevelinghe, Author | Paris : Hermann | Collection Méthodes (Paris. 1966), ISSN 0588-2303 | 1973Les modèles économiques sont désormais de plus en plus souvent confrontés aux données de l’observation des phénomènes qu’ils sont censés traduire et synthétiser. Leur progrès de l’information, ceux aussi des moyens de calcul informatique, permet[...]
4e de couverture sur le site de l'éditeur : "Cet ouvrage présente les bases de l’économétrie. Il met l’accent sur l’acquisition des méthodes et des compétences indispensables à tout étudiant pour réussir son cursus et à tout praticien désireux [...]
A presentation of the economic principles relating to the use and management of natural resources, including analysis of optimal use policies.
Note de l'éditeur : "While biodiversity loss is an ecological phenomenon, it also has further dimensions – political, social and, last but not least, economic. From the economic perspective, the rapid loss of biological diversity can be viewed i[...]
David W. Pearce, Author ; Dominic Moran, Author ; IUCN Biodiversity Programme, Issuing body | London : Earthscan Publications | 1994Biodiversity loss is one of the major resource problems facing the world, and the policy options available are restricted by inappropriate economic tools which fail to capture the value of species and their variety. This study describes in non-t[...]
Note de l'éditeur : "Producing food industrially like we do today causes tremendous global economic losses in terms of malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation. But because the food industry does not bear those costs and the price t[...]
Note de l'éditeur : "Originally published in 1992 Economics for the Wilds argues that an economics that properly values the resources of the wilds offers the best long-term security for their future. Most of the world’s wilds have, in fact, alwa[...]
